David Copperfield's magical relationship
with God and Judaism
In the September 9, 1928, edition of the
Forverts, a story with the headline
“Leading American Magicians are Jews”
opened with the following lede: “When a
Jew rolls up his sleeves it doesn’t
always mean business. It means magic.”
Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Jul 2013 15:24:36
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American magician Criss Angel accuses
Dynamo of stealing tricks - The Sun
Criss said: “It’s called stealing. It’s
unfortunate that some people have the
lack of creativity and ingenuinity to be
able to come up with their original
stuff. But do you know what? I never
look over my shoulder.” He claims that
Dynamo – real name STEVEN FRAYNE –
pinched his walking on water stunt, and
even the way he poses like Jesus... But
Dynamo reckons Criss is just
attention-seeking. He said: “I have
performed over 300 pieces of magic, out
of which a small number have also been
performed by Criss Angel in a completely
different way. Criss walked across a
pool whereas I walked across the Thames.
“I am from a different generation to him
and have no desire to be like him.”
Publ.Date : 8 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Oz Pearlman Can Read Your Mind, but Is
He the Next Great Jewish - Tablet
Magazine
Investing in running the same vigor he
had invested in magic, he researched
aerobic base training and tracked his
fitness with a heart-rate monitor.
Within two years, he’d won a marathon
and, inspired by Ultramarathon Man, a
motivational memoir by ultrarunning
super brand Dean Karnazes, signed up for
a 50-mile race, which he won by 26
minutes.
Publ.Date : 9 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

The Tricky Business of Copyrighting
Magic, Performances, and Tricks of the
Trade
And lastly, maybe hope for the magic
community as a whole lies in the
illusions that haven’t yet been created
— in innovating the art form. At least,
that’s what Copperfield thinks: “I
believe it’s possible to achieve justice
in the American court system, but it
takes a lot of time, energy, and money.
It’s not always worth focusing important
bandwidth on that when you can apply the
same time and energy to creating
something new and different.”
Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Jul 2013 23:03:52
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Magician honoured after receiving honour
from his hero - Scottish Daily Record
AN Edinburgh magician has been left
spellbound after receiving one of his
profession’s highest accolades. Kevin
McMahon has been awarded Associate of
the Inner Magic Circle with silver star
by veteran artist and past president of
the Magic Circle, David Berglas. He
joins celebrity magicians David
Copperfield and Paul Daniels as one of
just 300 Inner Circle members worldwide.
Publ.Date : 9 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Magician encourages participants - Selma
News
Jeff Jones was at Selma Public Library
last Wednesday to perform a magic show
as part of the children’s Summer Reading
Program, and while he was there the
place was anything but quiet. Featuring
live animals that included two turtle
doves, named Abra and Cadabara, a white
rabbit named Cotton Candy and a large
pet rat named Ratatouille, Jones
entertained his library audience of
one-hundred and two kids and forty-nine
adults by taking them on a lively and
imaginary journey in which the animals
disappeared, and then reappeared, in
boxes and cages, while loud, pulsating
music blasted over the room and LED
lights built into the backdrop changed
colors...
Publ.Date : 9 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

ING Direct brings magician Dynamo to
Australia for lunch break campaign
The magician will appear as part of a
campaign masterminded by media agency
UM. Dynamo will perform in Sydney next
Thursday and Melbourne on Friday in a
campaign aimed at encouraging
Australians to make better use of their
“disappearing” lunch break...
Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:15:35
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Chinese magician conjures up £ 1.2 ma
year at his online ' spell - Daily Mail
A Chinese magician has set up an online
spell shop that is reportedly earning
him more than £100,000 a month. Luo
Shun, 32, began his magic business in
2002, but launched his online spell
emporium last October to open up his
customer base. The magician from Hunan
province sells more than 160 spells or
products which range in price from £3 to
£218.
Publ.Date : 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Seven questions with Penn Jillette of
'Penn & Teller,' Vegas - Penn Live
"I wasn't really interested in magic.
Almost the contrary. I was a juggler...
And then I was so repulsed by magicians
I saw on TV and so upset by the scam
artists working as magicians, people
claiming to be psychics. I wanted
nothing to do with them. Then I met
Teller and James Randi of the James
Randi Educational Foundation, the one
who busts all the psychics, [they]
taught me that magic could be done
morally, and he [Teller] could do the
truth while doing things that weren't
true and that deal could be made with
the audience. The idea of telling the
truth through magic is when I got
interested. So really, my serious
interest in magic starts by meeting
Teller."..
Publ.Date : 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Meet the New Generation of Jewish
Magicians - Jewish Daily Forward
For his part, Max Maven, an iconic
mentalist and an authority on Jews in
magic, maintains that Jews celebrate
intellectual achievement and as such
have been traditionally drawn to magic
along with stand-up comedy. ...But the
primary reason for the large number of
Jews in magic (at least historically)
was plain old opportunity, which did not
exist for Jews in other fields, Maven
says. Well-known Jewish magicians
existed as far back as the 1700s, but
didn’t really come into their own until
the mid-to-late-19th century.
Publ.Date : 10 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMT